Job 8
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Job 8
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| Then Bildad the Shuhite made answer and said, | Then answered Bildad the Shuhite, and said, |
| How long will you say these things, and how long will the words of your mouth be like a strong wind? | How long wilt thou speak these things? And [how long] shall the words of thy mouth be [like] a mighty wind? |
| Does God give wrong decisions? or is the Ruler of all not upright in his judging? | Doth God pervert justice? Or doth the Almighty pervert righteousness? |
| If your children have done evil against him, then their punishment is from his hand. | If thy children have sinned against him, And he hath delivered them into the hand of their transgression; |
| If you will make search for God with care, and put your request before the Ruler of all; | If thou wouldest seek diligently unto God, And make thy supplication to the Almighty; |
| If you are clean and upright; then he will certainly be moved to take up your cause, and will make clear your righteousness by building up your house again. | If thou wert pure and upright: Surely now he would awake for thee, And make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous. |
| And though your start was small, your end will be very great. | And though thy beginning was small, Yet thy latter end would greatly increase. |
| Put the question now to the past generations, and give attention to what has been searched out by their fathers: | For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, And apply thyself to that which their fathers have searched out: |
| (For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:) | (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow); |
| Will they not give you teaching, and say words of wisdom to you? | Shall not they teach thee, and tell thee, And utter words out of their heart? |
| Will the river-plant come up in its pride without wet earth? will the grass get tall without water? | Can the rush grow up without mire? Can the flag grow without water? |
| When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant. | Whilst it is yet in its greenness, [and] not cut down, It withereth before any [other] herb. |
| So is the end of all who do not keep God in mind; and the hope of the evil-doer comes to nothing: | So are the paths of all that forget God; And the hope of the godless man shall perish: |
| Whose support is cut off, and whose hope is no stronger than a spider's thread. | Whose confidence shall break in sunder, And whose trust is a spider's web. |
| He is looking to his family for support, but it is not there; he puts his hope in it, but it comes to nothing. | He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: He shall hold fast thereby, but it shall not endure. |
| He is full of strength before the sun, and his branches go out over his garden. | He is green before the sun, And his shoots go forth over his garden. |
| His roots are twisted round the stones, forcing their way in between them. | His roots are wrapped about the [stone] -heap, He beholdeth the place of stones. |
| If he is taken away from his place, then it will say, I have not seen you. | If he be destroyed from his place, Then it shall deny him, [saying], I have not seen thee. |
| Such is the joy of his way, and out of the dust another comes up to take his place. | Behold, this is the joy of his way; And out of the earth shall others spring. |
| Truly, God will not give up him who is without sin, and will not take evil-doers by the hand. | Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, Neither will he uphold the evil-doers. |
| The time will come when your mouth will be full of laughing, and cries of joy will come from your lips. | He will yet fill thy mouth with laughter, And thy lips with shouting. |
| Your haters will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the sinner will not be seen again. | They that hate thee shall be clothed with shame; And the tent of the wicked shall be no more. |
